Example sentences of "[adj] day ['s] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his second retirement eight years later , he was again ‘ let down lightly ’ , by doing a few days ' work a month on market research . |
| 2 | ‘ Kept you asleep in the morning , and prevented you from doing a proper day 's work . ’ |
| 3 | Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension . |
| 4 | Are we all resolved to finish this day 's work ? ’ |
| 5 | I can not tell what will come from this day 's work . ’ |
| 6 | informal group norms developed over what was to count as an acceptable day 's work despite what management thought . |
| 7 | ‘ Not bad for one and a half day 's work , ’ he said smugly . |
| 8 | The civilian staff put out the empty milk bottles and leave the camp , another day 's work done , and the regimental police staff in the guardroom check to see that all the recruits have booked in and that all the visitors have been booked out . |
| 9 | ‘ I had a full-time job at Saffery Champness and then crammed another day 's work in . |
| 10 | And they then go home and struggle through another day 's work . |
| 11 | Back at the clubhouse , it was just another day 's work for the club professional , the irrepressible Dai Stevenson , who has been dispensing tees and sympathy to the Portrush members for 16 years , as had his late father , the legendary P G Stevenson , from 1922 to 1977 . |
| 12 | So here I am , installed in my new office , beginning another day 's work . |
| 13 | Sheila Whelan prepares herself for another day 's work . |
| 14 | I think another day 's work . |
| 15 | are not based on some economic theory but on things I and millions like me were brought up with : an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay ; live within your means ; put a nest egg by for a rainy day ; pay your bills on time ; support the police . |
| 16 | That sounds humane enough in theory , and no doubt it saved many hundreds of families from starvation during the years of the French wars ; but it positively encouraged employers to keep wages at rock-bottom levels , while anyone who wanted to do an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay was subject , instead , to the ignominy of accepting supplementary alms in order to live . |
| 17 | He says : ‘ I used to do all my own stunts , then one day I thought , ‘ Why am I depriving a stuntman of an honest day 's work ? ’ |
| 18 | If the university is to act as the " cultural centre for the whole community " , with literature as the " central civilizing force " , it needs to be capable of discrediting those students who " are actually too lazy or incompetent to do an honest day 's work " . |
| 19 | Flavia got up next morning when the alarm clock rang : Andrée in the evening ; meanwhile an honest day 's work ( for a change ) . |
| 20 | Common Fallacies Show why the following statements are incorrect : ( a ) The only reason for taxation is to provide for shirkers by penalizing people who do an honest day 's work . |
| 21 | At least he did an honest day 's work . |
| 22 | ‘ A simple day 's work , for a man like you . ’ |
| 23 | It is worth quoting in full Hardie 's graphic account of a typical day 's work by one of the artists : |
| 24 | If you were trying to train one from scratch and made an error like that it could easily mess up an entire day 's work . |
| 25 | For shifting material with a horse and cart James Bell was paid £1 : 12s. : 0d. for eight days ' work . |
| 26 | I knew all these ; had already played with them in my mind , from the most inconsequential ( Mickey Spillane 's ‘ another three days ' work never hurt anyone' ) to the most tragic : the story of Joseph de Jussieu and his search for the fever tree . |
| 27 | They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax . |
| 28 | Thatcher gets £250,000 for three days ' work |
| 29 | The woman who let Britain slide into the worst depression since the 30s was paid £250,000 last week for just three days ' work on a lecture tour . |
| 30 | The outcome of perhaps three days ' work is often no more than ten points on a flip chart , and we would consider that a good rate of striking . |